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[Gerhard Friedrich Müller]
Voyages from Asia to America, for completing the discoveries of the North West Coast of America. To which is prefixed, a summary of the voyages made by the Russians on the Frozen Sea, in search of a North East Passage... Translated from the High Dutch of S.[sic.] Muller... By Thomas Jefferys. London: printed for T.Jefferys, 1761. 4° (262 x 2120mm). 4 engraved maps, 2 folding and hand-coloured in outline. (Folding maps browned, small hole to the first folding map and the title.) Expertly bound to style in modern speckled calf, covers panelled in gilt and blind, spine in six compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering-piece in the second, the others with repeat decoration in gilt. Provenance: John Bax (early armorial stamp).
First edition in English. 'Contains the original account of Captain Behring's Polar Expedition, and discovery of the strait which bears his name, and the western limits of North America. Taken from the third volume of Müller's "Sammlung Russischer Geschichte,"... Since the rapid developments of British Columbia and Alaska this important book is becoming indispensable for the history of discovery and exploration in Northern Pacific' (Sabin). Howes M-875; Sabin 51285.
Voyages from Asia to America, for completing the discoveries of the North West Coast of America. To which is prefixed, a summary of the voyages made by the Russians on the Frozen Sea, in search of a North East Passage... Translated from the High Dutch of S.[sic.] Muller... By Thomas Jefferys. London: printed for T.Jefferys, 1761. 4° (262 x 2120mm). 4 engraved maps, 2 folding and hand-coloured in outline. (Folding maps browned, small hole to the first folding map and the title.) Expertly bound to style in modern speckled calf, covers panelled in gilt and blind, spine in six compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering-piece in the second, the others with repeat decoration in gilt. Provenance: John Bax (early armorial stamp).
First edition in English. 'Contains the original account of Captain Behring's Polar Expedition, and discovery of the strait which bears his name, and the western limits of North America. Taken from the third volume of Müller's "Sammlung Russischer Geschichte,"... Since the rapid developments of British Columbia and Alaska this important book is becoming indispensable for the history of discovery and exploration in Northern Pacific' (Sabin). Howes M-875; Sabin 51285.
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